Best Bets CLASSICAL NOTES Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, with Mikhail Arkadiev on piano, performs works by Rims Korsakov, Rubinstein, Borodin and Tchaikovsky in a Chamber Music Society of Detroit concert 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at Seligman Performing Arts Center in Beverly Hills. $30-$67. (248) 855-6070. Le Trio Gershwin brings together classical guitar, piano and cello to present George Gershwin's classi- cal and jazz works 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday (sold out), Feb. 25-26, at Wharton Center in East Lansing. $26. (517) 432-2000. POP/ROCK/JAZZ/FOLK Rod Stewart comes to the Palace of Auburn Hills with his "From Maggie May to the Great American Songbook" tour 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21. $49.75- $97.75. (248) 645-6666. Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra music director Arie Lipsky conducts the orchestra in Best of Broadway, a program that also features solo and ensemble vocal performances, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. $18- $33. (734) 994-4801. Modern blues singer/songwriter Chris Whitley performs at Ferndale's Magic Bag 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22. Doors at 8 p.m. $12. (248) 544-3030. The Ark in Ann Arbor hosts a Celtic Fiddle Fest 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. Individual sets will be followed by a group performance. $17.50. (734) 763-8587. Sting brings his "Sacred Love" tour to the Detroit Opera House 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. $50.50- $126. (248) 645-6666. Jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Dave Holland takes the stage with his Dave Holland Quintet 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Max M. Fisher Music Center. $18-$52. (313) 576-5111. ON THE STAGE St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild of Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills presents Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 'Night Mother, about a young woman who decides life is no longer worth living, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday, Feb. 20-28. $11-$13. (248) 644-0527. The Montreal-based musical Cinemashow Where Movies Come to Life, featuring scenes and music from the big screen that come to life on stage, runs 8 p.m. Tuesday- Friday, 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24-29, at Detroit's Fox Theatre. The movie-musical spectacle features scenes from Moulin Rouge, The broadcast at 8 p.m. Dress code: best attire or as your favorite movie character. $50. (313) 586-5234. THE SMALL SCREEN The 10th Annual Screen Actors Wizard of Oz, My Fair Lady, West Side Guild Awards, the only acting awards GAIL ZIMMERMAN Story, Funny Gil-4 Yenth Dirty Dancing, A rts Lift Editor voted upon solely by actors for per- The Graduate, The Big Chill and more. formances in film and television, airs 8 $28-$58. (248) 433-1515. p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, on TNT. Check Frankie Avalon reprises his movie role your local cable listings. as "Teen Angel" in a new production of the Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs' '50s musical Grease 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 1 p.m. Thursday, 8 FAMILY FUN p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7:30 Songstress/puppeteer Maureen Schiffman and her p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24-29, at Detroit's Masonic puppet pal Coco perform Coco Goes to the Animal Temple Theatre. $19.50-$59.50. (248) 645-6666. Fair, with music, movement, magic and audience The City of Southfield's SRO Productions stages participation, 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at the James Sherman's Beau Jest, about a nice Jewish girl Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield. Free. who hires a professional actor to impersonate a Gemini, the Ann Arbor acoustic folk duo of twins Jewish doctor she pretends she is dating, 8 p.m. San and Laz Slomovits, joins the Ann Arbor Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 27- Symphony Orchestra for a family concert of folk- March 14, at the 1854 Church, located in the tales, music from around the world, sing-alongs and Burgh Historical Park, 23960 Civic Center Dr., in a choir composed of children's choruses from the Southfield. Veteran community theater actors Jack Ann Arbor area, 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Abella and Selma Cohen play the parents who want MiChigan Theater in Ann Arbor. The concert will their daughter married to a nice Jewish boy. $8-$10. be preceded by an instrument petting zoo (2:30- (248) 796-4645. 3.30 p.m., free with admission). $10/$5 children 12 and under. (734) 994-4801. - The Oakland Theatre Guild presents the family THE BIG SCREEN classic The Hobbit 7:30 p.m. Friday, 4 and 7:30 The Uptown Palladium 12 Film Theatre in p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20-22, at Birmingham hosts its second annual Academy the Starlight Theatre, located inside the Summit Awards Celebration, featuring the screening of the Place Mall. $10-$13. (248) 335-1788. pre-show and Oscar telecasts in the theater's Prime Entertainment Auditorium, beginning 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 29. The evening features a buffet din- THE ART SCENE ner, dessert and coffee in the adjoining dining Paint Creek Center for the Arts and Pewabic room; unlimited popcorn and soft drinks; and con- Pottery co-host The Best of Arts & Crafts, a cele- tests and prizes. $26. (248) 644-FILM. bration of pottery, tile and contemporary visual arts, Star Southfield Entertainment Centre hosts an 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 21-22, at Oscar Night America celebration benefiting the the Shotwell Gustafson Pavilion at Oakland programs and community outreach initiatives of the University in Rochester; $5. Saturday preview: 8:30- Oakwood Healthcare System Foundation Sunday, 10 a.m.; $10. (248) 651-4110. Feb. 29, with a gala reception and big-screen view- ing of the 76th Annual Academy Awards; wine, beer Ferndale's Batista Gallery presents Emerging Paradigms, featuring the collaborative paintings of and hor d'oervres; a silent auction; and a predict- Japanese artist Sei Saito and African-American artist the-winners contest. Doors at 6:30 p.m.; celebrity Al Hinton, Feb. 27-April 10. Artists' reception: 6-9 impersonations and a live feature act at 7:30 p.m.; p.m. Friday, Feb. 27. (248) 544-4627. 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